Elizabeth Taylor's 80 of her personal pieces were auctioned off for $116 million.
Marilyn Monroe's ivory pleated dress, famously worn in the 1955 film “The Seven Year Itch” was sold during an auction in Beverly Hills in 2011 for $5.6 million.
Michael Jackson's "Thriller" music video inspired a generation of people to pick up dancing. In 2011, the leather jacket worn by him got sold for $1.8 million.
The late Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia is a cultural icon by every measure and a pair of his stage and studio-used guitars sold for a combined $1.74 million in 2002.
In the 1960s, rumours of an affair between Marilyn Monroe and the US President John F. Kennedy were a thing. Hence the dress she wore for his 45th birthday celebration in 1962 became a collector’s item which eventually got sold for over $1.26 million.
Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was known for smashing his guitars. But even broken, these are worth millions. One such guitar owned by Kurt was auctioned off for $596,000 in 2023, nearly 10 times the opening price.